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[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago

This should have been advised many months ago. Now it’s too late. Shithead won.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Can't. Even when it was Dorsey's Twitter, it was too toxic.

[–] don@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

Sure, do it for your mental health, but it won’t do anything else now. That ship has sailed, been torpedoed, and is now chilling at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

[–] VerPoilu@sopuli.xyz 143 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Don't just "delete" Twitter as in deleting the app. Please also close your account.

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Very important distinction. I’ve deleted the apps long before, thinking i’d keep the account to occasionally look at someone’s feed. When they publicly reinstated neonazi accounts, it was the last drop in the ocean

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 19 points 1 week ago

If you merely abandon your account, the change can be seen in the MAU statistics. If you delete it instead, you’ll make sure you won’t slip in the future. Either way, investors care about the active users, because the total number of accounts isn’t a very useful number to them.

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[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 90 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You didn't do that a couple of years ago when Musk decided to push his own posts and right wing content to the top of everyone's feed? I dropped twatter that same day.

Mastodon works well, tell your twatter refugee friends.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

People who weren't ready to listen before are now.

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[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 74 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's time to delete X? 🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀 Always has been.

[–] trespasser69@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Agreed

l never used *Xitter anyway

*It's pronounced as Shitter

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Lol, nothing like waiting until the last possible moment to do the tiniest thing that won't even accomplish anything at this point and then writing an article about it.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 23 points 1 week ago

Agreed, but still do it

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yup. Here's what I did:

  1. recommend others not vote for him in 2016
  2. didn't vote for him in 2016
  3. avoided TruthSocial and other nonsense during his first term
  4. encouraged friends and family to not vote for him in 2020
  5. didn't vote for him in 2020
  6. continued to avoid TruthSocial
  7. encouraged friends and family to not vote for him in 2024
  8. didn't vote for him in 2024

See a pattern?

[–] dukethorion@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Truth Social wasn't launched until 2022 during the Biden presidency.

Was it? Huh, I guess I avoided it thoroughly enough to not remember when it launched.

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You did vote though? Right? Right?

Yup, voted each time. Didn't matter though, my state's elections are almost never competitive. But it only took a few minutes and I voted at home, so at least I didn't spend all afternoon in line.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's past time to delete X. The platform is just as bad as it was a year ago. People couldn't be bothered to do the simplest fucking thing until they realize, "Whoops! I was supporting fascism!"

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[–] Cordinel@lemmy.sdf.org 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lemme guess, this site still has a Xitter account

[–] xilophor@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] wildflower@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago (59 children)

At this point in time, anyone left on the platform formerly known as Twitter, is either a fascist, or at least think that fascism isn't that big a deal.

[–] Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I know a lot of people still on twitter who ate firmly against fascism. I don't know why they're still on there though.

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[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Way too late to "fight" them this way, it's already served it's purpose for them. Everyone needed to have done this like a year ago, dummies. But yeah, still delete it anyway.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Deleted mine two years ago.

Kinda surprised it took everyone this long, TBH.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

I deleted Threads five days ago.

It was a cesspool of (Russian? Troll Farm?) propaganda attacking Harris for not having any accomplishments for the last four years, complaining about housing, grocery, egg, and gas prices, “fixing” America, a crapton of pro-jesus stuff, pro-Elon comments and reposts, government money going to “illegals” instead of hurricane victims, and a ton of made up lies. …

All of which were as transparent as fuck why they were wrong. VP’s don’t make policy, so what accomplishments should she have? Housing has been going up for a decade+, it’s not new, egg prices were normal while the pics were of organic egg prices and expensive grocery carts had hidden high cost items or just straight up lied about the cost, gas prices are the lowest they’ve been for years. Jesus stuff praised trump, America, tons of AI generated “holy” trump pics, bashed atheists, posted Elon’s BS pseudo-wisdom, Ignored the $20Bn spent on hurricane relief in favor of a few hundred million housing the undocumented workers living in the affected area…

It was infuriating. Because they were so obviously wrong…blatantly, in-your-face, completely fucking wrong. It was a constant flood of lies. Eight out of nine posts were BS.

But as soon as the election swung in Trump’s favor…poof…it went quiet. Hardly a peep. Gone.

And I realize that Threads was captured completely by troll farm bots spewing right-wing propaganda. And it was a waste of time. So my account will be deleted.

Cant delete xitter if I never had it

taps head

[–] Zier@fedia.io 20 points 1 week ago

Twitter (I will always call it that-fuck you melon head musk), is just fox news for the internet, a fascist hate app.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That would require me to have X on my phone. I do not. Because I deleted Twitter when dipshit took over.

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Dipshit is my 2024 favourite word.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

...the only way this would have fought them was before the election, now they're in the walls, that is palliative care.

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